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<span class="">By <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold" href="/author/jose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jose Antonio Lanz</a></span></span></span> <span class="">Edited by <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold " href="/author/guillermo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guillermo Jimenez</a></span></span></span> <span class="whitespace-nowrap">Oct 17, 2026Oct 17, 2026</span> Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tokenmaxxing-as-a-weird-new-trend/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>estimated the tab</a> at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she <a href="https://wtop.com/news/2026/07/a-flex-in-corporate-america-ai-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-workplaces-look-to-cut-tech-spending/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>told the Associated Press</a> this summer, referring to Anthropic's high-end models. If you do the same thing, you're hiring Albert Einstein to calculate your change at a MacDonald’s. Every word you type into ChatGPT or Claude, and every word it writes back, is metered in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>tokens</a>, chunks of text that average about three-quarters of a word. On a $20 subscription that meter decides how fast you hit your usage limit. On the API, the pay-per-token access developers use to plug models into their own apps, it decides the bill. Here's Anthropic's current <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>price list</a>, per million tokens: Haiku's rate applies to prompts under 100,000 tokens; longer prompts cost five times as much. The top model costs 100 times more than the smallest, and OpenAI's <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>own lineup</a> runs the same spread, from $10 to $0.10 per million input tokens. Those per-token prices add up fast for the labs—and you: Anthropic's revenue run rate went from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$47 billion</a> by May, while OpenAI is fighting a <a href="https://decry
The U.S. high-yield bond option-adjusted spread is quoted at 323 basis points.
Bjie.com US stock market data: The latest daily reading of the US high-yield bond option-adjusted spread is 323 basis points. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours earlier, it is unchanged.
ICNT rose to $0.2419, hitting a nearly 3-month high.
According to Bijie.com data: The ICNT/USD trading pair on Coinbase Pro reached a price of $0.2419, hitting a nearly 3-month high, rising 36.75% within 24 hours, with a trading volume of $3.24 million. After the price hit a new high, the market expects a possible price correction.
BTC liquidations over the past 24 hours totaled 36.0928 million USD.
CoinWorld data: BTC's rolling 24-hour liquidation amount is approximately 36.0928 million USD, involving about 2,473 liquidated accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is down 36.97%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 412.64%.
The long-to-short account ratio for BTC contracts (October 18, 2026, 00:00) is 1.68.
CoinWorld data: The BTCUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 1.68, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.0611; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.1703.
Bank for International Settlements research: Raising deposit rates can curb stablecoin growth
CoinWorld data: According to research by the Bank for International Settlements, banks can reduce the growth rate of stablecoins by 3 percentage points simply by raising deposit interest rates by 0.01%. For every 1 basis point increase in U.S. deposit rates, stablecoin market capitalization growth will decrease by about 3 percentage points within 10 weeks, with average growth at around 15%. This effect is greater on USDC than on USDT, which researchers attribute to USDC's closer ties to U.S. depositors. Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo still pay no interest on $1.6 trillion in deposits.
Bank for International Settlements: Crypto stablecoins compete directly with traditional bank deposits.
According to WatcherGuru, the Bank for International Settlements found that crypto stablecoins compete directly with traditional bank deposits.
The U.S. 10-year breakeven inflation rate is reported at 2.35%.
CoinWorld US stock market data: The latest daily reading of the US 10-year breakeven inflation rate is 2.35%. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours earlier, it rose by 0.03 percentage points; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days earlier, it rose by 0.02 percentage points.
ZKsync: A single GPU can verify Ethereum, Vitalik says the speed race has been won.
ZKsync announced that its new Airbender Prime prover can verify Ethereum blocks on a single GPU at a speed of about 10 seconds per block. According to ZKsync's own tests, a single NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics card verified 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum blocks within 10 seconds. Vitalik Buterin congratulated the team and said the speed race has essentially been won. ZKsync's progress will promote the decentralization of Ethereum by reducing verification costs, potentially enabling more small operators to participate in the future.
US options market open interest stands at 705,931,605 contracts.
BiJie Network US stock market data: US options market open interest stands at 705,931,605 contracts, of which 404,271,300 are calls and 301,660,305 are puts.